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Can someone chime in why hosting this behind Cloudflare is a bad idea? For something which is a blog/CMS (put another way the # of readers >> # of creators), I'
by johnm1019 10y ago
Can someone chime in why hosting this behind Cloudflare is a bad idea?
For something which is a blog/CMS (put another way the # of readers >> # of creators), I'm envisioning using a single instance behind Cloudflare with heavy caching turned on? Cloudflare caches and serves everything. For free (you can pay them if you want). Host your assets in S3 or GCS, also put them behind Cloudflare. If your instance goes down, you have a rough chunk of your caching window to bring your instance back online (which if it's well encapsulated should be a few scripts to spawn a new instance and re-point the cloud provider internal DNS which will update ~1s)
- garysieling 10y agoI use Cloudflare for mine (https://www.garysieling.com/blog https://www.garysieling.com/blog) - they catch 75% of the requests. For sections that are rarely hit, you'd still get 404's from downtime, and there are more valid URLs to pages on a Wordpress site than you'd think.
- user5994461 10y ago> Can someone chime in why hosting this behind Cloudflare is a bad idea? It's not a bad idea. Who said that? Put your blog behind cloudflare. It will cache most of the requests and save a lot of load and bandwidth on your instances.